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• Artistic style making primmest don so upset
• Late 20th-century style of art and literature
• Genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also post-modernism , by 1977, from post- + modernism . Defined by Terry Eagleton as "the contemporary movement of thought which rejects ... the possibility of objective knowledge" and is therefore "skeptical of truth, unity, and progress" ["After Theory," ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Postmodernism describes both an era and a broad movement that developed in the late-20th century across philosophy , the arts , architecture , and criticism which marked a departure from modernism . While encompassing a broad range of ideas and projects, ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism